Scientific Mobility and Knowledge Networks in High Emigration Countries: Evidence from the Pacific

John Gibson and David McKenzie

No 1305, RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series from Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM)

Abstract: This paper uses a unique survey to examine the nature and extent of knowledge flows that result from the international mobility of researchers whose initial education was in small island countries. Current migrants produce substantially more research than similar-skilled return migrants and non-migrants. Return migrants have no greater research impact than individuals who never migrate but are the main source of research knowledge transfer between international and local researchers. Our results contrast with previous claims in the literature that too few migrant researchers ever return home to have much impact, and that there is no productivity gain to researchers from migration.

Keywords: Diasporas; Knowledge networks; Scientific mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J6 O3 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-knm, nep-mig and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cream-migration.org/publ_uploads/CDP_05_13.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Scientific mobility and knowledge networks in high emigration countries: Evidence from the Pacific (2014)
Working Paper: Scientific Mobility and Knowledge Networks in High Emigration Countries: Evidence from the Pacific (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:crm:wpaper:1305

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series from Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CReAM Administrator () and Matthew Nibloe ().